Apache Tomcat 6.0

Tomcat Setup

This document introduces several ways to set up Tomcat for running
on different platforms. Please note that some advanced setup issues
are not covered here: the full distribution (ZIP file or tarball)
includes a file called
RUNNING.txt which discusses these issues. We encourage you to refer
to it if the information below does not answer some of your questions.

Installing Tomcat on Windows can be done easily using the Windows
installer. Its interface and functionality is similar to other wizard
based installers, with only a few items of interest.

Installation as a service: Tomcat will be
installed as a Windows
NT/2k/XP service no matter what setting is selected. Using the
checkbox on the component page sets the service as "auto"
startup, so that Tomcat is automatically started when Windows
starts. For optimal security, the service should be run as a
separate user, with reduced permissions (see the Windows Services
administration tool and its documentation).

Java location: The installer will use the registry
or the JAVA_HOME environment variable to determine the base path
of a J2SE 5 JRE.

Tray icon: When Tomcat is run as a service, there
will not be any tray icon present when Tomcat is running. Note that
when choosing to run Tomcat at the end of installation, the tray
icon will be used even if Tomcat was installed as a service.

Tomcat can be run as a daemon using the jsvc tool from the
commons-daemon project. Source tarballs for jsvc are included with the
Tomcat binaries, and need to be compiled. Building jsvc requires
a C ANSI compiler (such as GCC), GNU Autoconf, and a JDK.

Before running the script, the JAVA_HOME environment
variable should be set to the base path of the JDK. Alternately, when
calling the ./configure script, the path of the JDK may
be specified using the --with-java parameter, such as
./configure --with-java=/usr/java.

Using the following commands should result in a compiled jsvc binary,
located in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin folder. This assumes
that GNU TAR is used, and that CATALINA_HOME is an
environment variable pointing to the base path of the Tomcat
installation.

Please note that you should use the GNU make (gmake) instead of
the native BSD make on FreeBSD systems.

Download a commons-daemon binary from the Jakarta Commons download page,
and place jsvc.tar.gz and commons-daemon.jar in the
$CATALINA_HOME/bin folder.

jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which
causes it to switch to another user after the daemon initialization is
complete. This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged
user while still being able to use privileged ports.
jsvc --help will return the full jsvc usage
information. In particular, the -debug option is useful
to debug issues running jsvc.

The file $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc/native/tomcat.sh can be
used as a template for starting Tomcat automatically at boot time from
/etc/init.d. The file is currently setup for running
Tomcat 4.1.x, so it is necessary to edit it and change the classname
from BootstrapService to Bootstrap.

Note that the Commons-Daemon JAR file must be on your runtime classpath
to run Tomcat in this manner. The Commons-Daemon JAR file is in the Class-Path
entry of the bootstrap.jar manifest, but if you get a ClassNotFoundException
or a NoClassDefFoundError for a Commons-Daemon class, add the Commons-Daemon
JAR to the -cp argument when launching jsvc.